Arrows FA1

The Arrows FA1 was the first car of the Arrows Grand Prix International team and raced only in the early part of the 1978 Formula One season. It was in effect a Shadow DN9, a design that Tony Southgate had drawn for Shadow while working as a consultant, and Southgate wrongly believed that this gave him the rights to it. After a protest from Shadow, the London High Courts ruled that over 70 percent of the FA1 was identical to the DN9 and banned it partway through the season, ordering that all four cars be broken up and their parts handed to Shadow. Expecting to lose, Arrows had already designed and built a new car, the A1, while the case was heard, so the team did not miss a race.